...one of the good things of Dublin's gangland crime is that most of the murder victims are thugs.
So, the poor performance of the Irish police force (which is underpaid and overworked, nothing special in Ireland...) has also its good sides: just do nothing and the bad people will eventually kill themselves.
Cynic as this may sound, I sometimes believe that this might be one of the business rationales of Garda bureaucrats in times of recession (oh, was it different during the so-called "Tiger years"? Likely not...).
The latest "victim" of gangland crime is a "well-known criminal involved in robberies, drugs, gun and gangland crime", states RTE news. And today, Breakingnews / IrelandOnline gives the name of the thug: Aidan Byrne.
Apparently he was found with gunshot wounds in his chest, in the passenger seat of a car on Drumalee Avenue, near North Circular Road (Phibsborough)
The story sounds like a typical gangster-template-story from Dublin.
In his early 30s, he was from the East Wall area, one of the "hot spots" of Dublin gangland activity. East wall is a slum-like relic of a once very poor area, squeezed in between the fancy new finance centre, IFSC, and the newer Dockland developments, where posh yuppies and young employees from all over Europe, many of them working in the finance sector or for companies like Facebook or Google, live.
While most of the gangland-crime is nowadays concentrating in more off-beaten quarters to the north, northwest and southwest of Dublin, East Wall (like Summerhill) is one of the places near the city centre where crime and murder are still quite high.
